Re: [ga] WLS - Better Margins for Registrars

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Joop and all assembly members,

  Why should the resellers or for that matter the Registrars need
to join any constituency what so ever when the ICANN BoD, staff
and even the DOC/NTIA have no effective sway to make them
do anything with respect to technical innovations or products such
as WLS or Snapback.  Don't you think the Registrars, Registries,
and resellers already know this?  They do.

  Unless or until the Registrar, and Registry contracts have specific
provisions to require Registries and Registrars to follow a best
practices doctrine and technical standards for these sorts of
areas, there will be no stopping Registrars, Registries or even
resellers from using their own technical approaches to issues
such as Domain Name transfers, Deletes, and original registrations.
We are seeing this now, we shall continue to see it unless ICANN,
the DOC/NTIA mandates such contract restrictions.  And even
if such restrictions are put into the Registrar and Registry contracts,
the existing contracts in force are not likely to be amended to
include such provisions.  And also even when the existing contracts
in force are up for renewal, the haggling from the lawyers will
be quite intense, if not down right nasty to the extent of huge
legal filings and court cases.

  It is for these reasons that we [INEGroup] argued some time
ago that ramming through those Registrar and registry contracts
before stakeholder review and approval was a huge mistake.
Now the stakeholder is reaping the negative effect of this
lack of oversight that the ICANN BoD and especially
the ICANN staff bypassed.  And it is for these sorts of
judgment errors and poor process, that we foresaw
the lack of "Clue" that the ICANN Staff had than and
for the most part still has.

Joop Teernstra wrote:

> On 21:15 17/01/02 -0800, William X Walsh said:
>
> >More accurately, a reseller of a registrar  :)
> >
> >I'm sure you will understand why I make a point of noting the
> >distinction.  Unlike Registrars, resellers of registrar services have
> >no voice inside ICANN.  The registrars constituency won't have us, the
> >business constituency wants rules to bar us from there, and there just
> >isn't any other place for us to be heard.
>
> and the Individual Domain Name Holders  Constituency is not the right place
> either...
> I support the call for a separate resellers constituency, ideally as a
> sub-constituency of the Registrars.
>
> --Joop
>
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Regards,
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Jeffrey A. Williams
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CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng.
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